Collected by John Brune, August 1962
English Dance & Song 35:2 (1973) p.59
It seems unlikely that these words were collected from a travelling singer – they look suspiciously like the work of a modern songwriter attempting to write a romantic ballad. John Brune certainly collected songs from travellers, but he also wrote songs, and seems to have had a reputation for “improving” some of the songs he collected. There is no other entry in the Roud Index for number 3184, which tends to confirm these suspicions.